Kyuu said:
I guess by big game I mean 10 million + sellers (lifetime). Sony's software sales on Playstation have been declining for how long now? 3 years? I was half expecting them to pick up by this point. |
First party sales were about the same this FY so we can mainly attribute the drop in software sales to a 3rd party decline. If it wasn't for Hogwarts it would have been even larger.
The major games:
Resident Evil Village - May 2021
Mass Effect Legendary - May 2021
Fifa 22 - October 2021
Far Cry 6 - October 2021
Back 4 Blood - October 2021
Call of Duty Vanguard - November 2021
GTA Trilogy - November 2021
Battlefield 2042 - November 2021
Dying Light 2 - February 2022
Elden Ring - February 2022
GTA V (PS5/XSX) - March 2022
Tiny Tina's Wonderland - March 2022
Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga - April 2022
Saints Row (lol) - August 2022
Fifa 23 - September 2022
A Plauge Tale: Requiem - October 2022
Gotham Knights - October 2022
Call of Duty Modern Warfare II - October 2022
Need for Speed Unbound - December 2022
Monster Hunter Rise - January 2023
Forspoken - January 2023
Dead Space - January 2023
Hogwarts Legacy - February 2023
Resident Evil 4 - March 2023
I think last FY easily wins that battle. Battlefield 2042 while not being received well was one of the highest grossing games of the year in the USA. RE Village also counted for almost 12 months while RE4 for this year got about a week of sales. Forspoken, Deadspace, Gotham Knights and Saints Row were all sales dissapointments and MHR is unlikely to have sold that well on PS4/PS5 considering how late a release it was. So all around it was a very poor year for third party sales.
